Help Please...Today, my Splash Ameraucana started sounding like a goose!

[analyticalblonde]

Hi all,

I'm a little rattled and worried.

I have ten girls: 2 Buffs, 2 Barred Rocks, 2 NHRs, 2 Lav Orpingtons, and 2 Ameraucanas. All of my girls will be 1 year old next month.

Yesterday, she was her typical squakey self; today, she is making goose sounding honks.

She is alert, eating, drinking, not lethargic, and there are no issues I could see or feel that indicates anything other than normal.

Can anyone tell me if I need to isolate her? If this is something that sometimes just happens? Are there any suggestions that can have brought this on?

I do not have a Vet to take her to if it is something critical.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Hi all,

I'm a little rattled and worried.

I have ten girls: 2 Buffs, 2 Barred Rocks, 2 NHRs, 2 Lav Orpingtons, and 2 Ameraucanas. All of my girls will be 1 year old next month.

Yesterday, she was her typical squakey self; today, she is making goose sounding honks.

She is alert, eating, drinking, not lethargic, and there are no issues I could see or feel that indicates anything other than normal.

Can anyone tell me if I need to isolate her? If this is something that sometimes just happens? Are there any suggestions that can have brought this on?

I do not have a Vet to take her to if it is something critical.

Can you get a video of her so we can hear what she sounds like? (for video, upload to youtube and provide a link)

No wheezing, runny nose/eyes, etc.?
See how she is tomorrow - she may have had some feed stuck(?)
I'm not one to isolate a chicken unless they are being picked on, need some type of protection or the weather is so cold they need to be placed somewhere warmer.
If she's active/eating/drinking, then I would leave her with the flock, no need to stress her.

 

[analyticalblonde]

Can you get a video of her so we can hear what she sounds like? (for video, upload to youtube and provide a link)

No wheezing, runny nose/eyes, etc.?
See how she is tomorrow - she may have had some feed stuck(?)
I'm not one to isolate a chicken unless they are being picked on, need some type of protection or the weather is so cold they need to be placed somewhere warmer.
If she's active/eating/drinking, then I would leave her with the flock, no need to stress her.

I have never uploaded to YouTube before but I will try to do it tomorrow.

Her eyes are bright and she looks directly at me. I do not hear any wheezing just this horrible sound of a goose sounding honk. Her nose was clear with no drainage. This all just came on today.

I don't want to have to isolate her because I have had to do it before when one of my Buffs went broody. It took 3 days to break and reintroduction was not fun.

The weather for the winter here is quite cold...nights have dropped into the teens and 20s regularly. And after reading and having so many replies about supplemental heat, I chose not to do that...I really read up on the breeds that are both heat and cold tolerant because in my area, we get all four seasons here and wanted to be sure my flock could tolerate the cold and the heat.

I have put in a phone call to an exotic pet vet office that is 40 miles from my home because they claim to treat all birds...I will know more about if they can help tomorrow. But, I also need to check on her to see if she is still doing this. I'm praying she doesn't take a bad turn and won't know until the morning.

I will follow up with this thread tomorrow once I evaluated her and see if this vet can help if they feel she needs to come in with giving them more information on the situation.

 

[analyticalblonde]

@Wyorp Rock

As soon as the Vet's office opened this morning, I confirmed they do take care of chickens. This is good news because I tried to find a Vet just to have in my back pocket and was unsuccessful. It was because of a link provided by BYC which took me to a website that actually has a database of all Aviary Veterinarians that are members...THANK YOU BYC!!!!

Here is the link in case anyone is needing a Vet:

https://www.aav.org/search/custom.asp?id=1803
Next, after they requested additional information about my girl's condition this morning, I went out and spent over an hour just watching, listening, observing her behavior and with relief, her clucks, had, for the most part, returned. She was sprite, eating wonderfully, active, and eyes and nose clear of any discharge. Although she seems to have gotten past this bizarre episode, I will be keeping a sharp eye on her and my other girls just so I don't let any ball drop. I followed up with the Vet's office and updated them. They assured me they will be open over the weekend should I have a need to bring her to them in case of an emergency.

I just really wish there was any information about this...and a lesson has been learned - I need to always have my phone on hand so if something happens in the future, I can make a video so my friends here have more information to consider along with with my observations!

 

[Wyorp Rock]

@Wyorp Rock

As soon as the Vet's office opened this morning, I confirmed they do take care of chickens. This is good news because I tried to find a Vet just to have in my back pocket and was unsuccessful. It was because of a link provided by BYC which took me to a website that actually has a database of all Aviary Veterinarians that are members...THANK YOU BYC!!!!

Here is the link in case anyone is needing a Vet:

https://www.aav.org/search/custom.asp?id=1803
Next, after they requested additional information about my girl's condition this morning, I went out and spent over an hour just watching, listening, observing her behavior and with relief, her clucks, had, for the most part, returned. She was sprite, eating wonderfully, active, and eyes and nose clear of any discharge. Although she seems to have gotten past this bizarre episode, I will be keeping a sharp eye on her and my other girls just so I don't let any ball drop. I followed up with the Vet's office and updated them. They assured me they will be open over the weekend should I have a need to bring her to them in case of an emergency.

I just really wish there was any information about this...and a lesson has been learned - I need to always have my phone on hand so if something happens in the future, I can make a video so my friends here have more information to consider along with with my observations!

Glad that she seems to be o.k.!
It's good to find a vet that will see chickens, thank you for the link!